Last Thursday, Amstel Light made the Highline Ballroom a playground for the well-heeled West Chelsea crowd, with flashy flatscreen TVs, flowing bottles of beer and a literal velvet rope at the entrance. The brewery sponsored a series of free concerts, in Minneapolis, Chicago, Boston and finally New...

A friend asked at last Sunday's SummerStage show if the lineup had any relation to Lilith Fair. It didn't -- that show had rolled through town the night before -- but the acts provided three templates for young, post-millennium, female rock success.

Every summer during the last decade, the masses have trekked out to Coney Island for Siren Festival, battling the heat and crowds for a searing day of live music. Although the area is slowly descending into yet another commercialized sector -- as evidenced this year by the half-dozen...

Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter have been on the run this year. The masterminds and resident DJs behind Mister Saturday Night and Sunday Best, two of the city's best dance parties, lost two venues in just a few months. The D.I.Y. enclave Market Hotel...

A sunless evening awaited the audience at the South Street Seaport last Friday, as the city's sweltering heat wave gave way to a cooler respite. The evening began with an brief appearance from Yellowfever, who were unable to perform last week, before giving way to the...